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J. CU$SONS.

CALENDAR. No. 313,996. Patented Mar. 17, 1885.

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FETCH-C JOHN CUSSONS, OF GLEN ALLEN, VIRGINIA.

CALENDAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part; of Letters Patent 160313336, dated March 17, 1885. Application filed June 18, 1884. o model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN OUssONs, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at ticularly to perpetual calendars, and has for.

its object to prominently display or expose to view the names of the days of theweek and the dates of the day of the month, the dates of the month for each week being movably 0pposite to the appropriate day-name of the week, and also to provide a second set of tigures to be used in connection with the dates of the month, to draw attention near the close of the month to the necessity of calling to mind the number of days in the month, the said figures also serving to indicate the dates of the immediate ensuing month appropriate to the week-day names opposite which they occur until the dates are changed for the next following week,all as hereinafter particularly set forth andspecified.

' In the drawings, Figure I illustrates a face view of a calendar constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical sec tion of the same.

Referring to the drawings, the letter A designates the face board or plate, having a space, B, reserved for an advertisement, and the other portion, 0, provided with a space, D, for the display of the desired number of the dates of the month, the said space being preferably formed by slitting the face-piece, as indicated by the dotted lines, so as to form a flap which, when pressed backward, permits the passage in front of it of a portion of the dial containing the dates of the month,whicl1 are thus eX- posed to View, said flap also serving, by bearing against the back of the dial, to strengthen the latter and to assist in holding it to its place. Above the space D there is printed on the face-piece, preferably in abbreviated form, the names of the days of the week, or so many of them as may be desired, there being illustrated in the drawings the siX working days of the week, Monday to Saturday, inclusive. These week-day names are usually contained within division spaces, as illus trated, and the whole may be contained within a printed scroll, or otherwise ornamentally arranged. The dial E is pivoted, by means of an eyelet, F, or other pivot, to the b'ack of the face-piece, and has formed thereon, preferably along its margin, in prominent characters, the dates of the month from 1 to 31, inclusive, in concentric order, so arranged that under each name of the week-day on the facepicce there will occur the date of the day of the month oppositely moved under the same. so as to be exposed to view; Beneath some of the dates of the month, in a line concentric in number than the dates of the month exposed to view, and preferably beginning in numerical order under some date in the last week of the month, there being illustrated in the drawings the numerals l'to 5, inclusive, beginning numerically under the date 31 of the month and continuing to and under the date 4.

For convenience thereare printed on the facepiece the names of the several months in the year, and opposite each month the. number of days in that month, as illustrated, and there is also printed on the face-piece words indicating how often the dial is to be adjusted for instance, as illustrated, the words adjust weekly, but the names of the months and days contained thereon and the words indicating the time of adjustment may be omitted without departing from the spirit of my invention, as may also the order and arrangement of,the other parts he changed, provided that the essentials are retained.

The operation of the calendar is as follows, taking for illustration the arrangement shown in the drawings:

In setting the calendar at the date of the month, and the day of the week on which it falls being known, the date is moved opposite that day on the face-piece. Then at the close of the week the dial is turned to move the numerals the distance corresponding to seven dates, which brings the dates for the following (now present) week into view, and so on week after week from one month to the next. \Vhen the dial is moved to expose to View the dates of the month in the last week of the month, it also brings into view the second series of numerals, which, so long as they are exposed to View, serve as a reminder that the last days of the month have arrived, and of the necessity of refreshing the memory as to whether there are thirty or thirty-one days in the month. The suggestion being made, the fact can be ascertained from the table of months and the number of their days on the face-piece. If there be found to be thirty days, then from that time till the end of the Week the small or second series of numerals will be followed, as indicating the dates of the month falling on the days of the week to which they are opposite, the larger or nain numeral dates being ignored. For instance, taking the numerals in the position shown in the drawings, if the month has only thirty days, and the last day falls on Monday of the weekdays, then from Tuesday till Saturday the small or second series of numerals will be followed and the others disregarded, the smallnumeral indicating that the first day of the month is on Tuesday of the week-days,and so on to the close of the week. Then when the dial is adjusted for the following week, only the large or main numerals are exposed and consequently followed. If it be found that the month has thirty'one days, then the main or larger numerals will be followed as the correct indicating ones,and the smaller numerals will be disregarded. The small numerals are illustrated as applied when calculating months of thirty or thirty-one days. For the month of February, however, a similar arrangement may be made, although ifnot made the dial at such time may be adjusted to the first of March.

I do not claim the combination of a disk rotating upon a base-plate having a segmental opening through which shows a portion of the disk, as such mechanical structure and comals, to adapt the calendar to correctly indicate dates of the month and weekdays on which they fall in the last week of one month and first week of the next month without shift ing the dial, substantially as described.

2. In a calendar, the combination, with a face-piece having indicated thereon days of the week, names of the month, and the number of days contained therein, of a movable dial having numerals thereon indicating the days of the month, and a second series of numerals opposite a portion of the other series indicating a part of the days of the month, whereby the calendar will indicate the nunr ber of days in each month and the dates of the month and week-days on which they fall in the last week of one month and first week of the next month without shifting the dial, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

, JOHN OUSSONS. Witnesses:

A. O. HARRINGTON, SETH GAYLE. 

